July 21, 2016

Learn CAESAR II quick tips from a seasoned teacher and support provider of the product. This session focuses on the solutions for the most common questions and issues from new CAESAR II users.

Trying to learn any new software can sometimes seem like traveling in a foreign land. Similar to foreign cultures and dialects, software has its own distinctive requirements and logic that initially may not be intuitive for the uninitiated user.

In this webinar, experienced CAESAR II application engineer Judy Hodgson, P.E., gives you the answers behind some commonly-encountered questions and hurdles to learning the software. Hodgson explains reasoning behind each question, and you will learn how to make CAESAR II do what you want it to do.

Even the most experienced CAESAR II user can trip up on certain areas if performing an action for the first time. This webinar will help you flatten the learning curve.

About the Speaker:

Judy Hodgson, P.E., serves as a CAESAR II Applications Engineer at Plant Design Solutions, providing in-depth technical support and training for customers. She has nearly 25 years of industry experience. Judy has worked as a consulting engineer at DuPont and as a principal engineer at Westinghouse Electric. She holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.

3D model enhancements, such as new arrows for displacements, rotations, forces, and moments; a new symbol for zero-length expansion joints; improved display of Axial Stop symbols outside of piping; and improved node number display when rotating and viewing the model.

Free and fixed displacement information now available in piping input.

Right-click menu improvements, including the ability to break and insert restraints all from one dialog, as well as specify location based on element data.

Join us for this product webinar and learn about the benefits available with the latest version of CAESAR II — the established industry standard in pipe stress analysis.

About the Speaker:

Stephanie Donovan brings more than 20 years of communications and software industry experience to Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis Solutions product management. Stephanie began at Intergraph in 2012 working in product documentation and served as an Agile Scrum Master for the CAESAR II team. Most recently, she has turned her sharp end-user focus to gathering product requests from clients serving as the product owner for CAESAR II. With a solid focus on delivering what customers need, Stephanie uses her strong project management skills and clear understanding of user experience and scheduling to ensure the CAESAR II team delivers successful product releases.

June 28, 2016

Learn CAESAR II quick tips from a seasoned teacher and support provider of the product. This session focuses on the solutions for the most common questions and issues from new CAESAR II users.

Trying to learn any new software can sometimes seem like traveling in a foreign land. Similar to foreign cultures and dialects, software has its own distinctive requirements and logic that initially may not be intuitive for the uninitiated user.

In this webinar, experienced CAESAR II application engineer Judy Hodgson, P.E., gives you the answers behind some commonly-encountered questions and hurdles to learning the software. Hodgson explains reasoning behind each question, and you will learn how to make CAESAR II do what you want it to do.

Even the most experienced CAESAR II user can trip up on certain areas if performing an action for the first time. This webinar will help you flatten the learning curve.

About the Speaker:

Judy Hodgson, P.E., serves as a CAESAR II Applications Engineer at Plant Design Solutions, providing in-depth technical support and training for customers. She has nearly 25 years of industry experience. Judy has worked as a consulting engineer at DuPont and as a principal engineer at Westinghouse Electric. She holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.

A number of issues related to SIFs and flexibility factors have been addressed and can have a significant impact on the appropriate analysis of supports, rotating equipment, and stresses in tees and bends. This webinar will highlight those issues and provide examples of how various components can interact.

About the Speaker:

Tony Paulin has dedicated his life to creating and helping engineers apply the best and most advanced technology to the fields of piping and pressure vessel design and analysis. In 1991 he founded Paulin Research Group (PRG) to develop FEA-based software programs for use in the PV&P sector. Under Tony Paulin’s direction, PRG performs consulting, training, and physical lab testing to confirm both the software’s accuracy and usability. He regularly presents papers and findings at industry seminars and conferences.

Intergraph offers various levels of integration between Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis Solutions offerings and Intergraph SmartPlant offerings. This integration helps users reuse and leverage data that is constantly created throughout their work processes.

Automate the production of deliverables, reduce engineering and design time, and improve accuracy on every project with Intergraph solutions. Integrate every phase of the engineering and design including:

conceptual design

initial layout

3D modeling and analysis (structural, piping and hydraulic)

In this webinar, you will witness a live presentation, by ImageGrafix team, showing how ICAS Products (CADWorx, CAESAR II, PVElite and GT STRUDL) integrate with each other in a real-life project environment of a process skid manufacturer.

Speaker Bio:

Venkat is the sales Director of ImageGrafix Software FZCO, the Intergraph Global Network Partner for the Middle East & India. A CADWorx user, enthusiast and trainer since 2003, he has conducted many training programs on CADWorx and has successfully helped many clients in the Middle East to embrace CADWorx as their mainstream plant design software. A mechanical engineer by profession, Venkat has been an AutoCAD user since version 2.18

K M Pandian, a Mechanical Engineer by profession is working as a Technical Manager for Plant Design Solutions at ImageGrafix Software FZCO. Having 20 Years of experience in project, Product demonstrations, training and end user support for CAESAR II, PVElite, TANK & PRG Software.

While today’s easy-to-use pipe stress software enables engineers to accomplish great feats with remarkable efficiency, it also provides the opportunity for well-intentioned engineers to generate results that lack the intended accuracy. Inaccuracy is OK if you know it’s there and you know what it implies. It’s a different matter when you think your answers are accurate, but they are not.

There are several common sources of unexpected inaccuracies. In this webinar, CAESAR II expert and CodeCAD president Jim Wilcox will alert you to common cases where pipe stress software generates results that an engineer might think are accurate, when they are not. Wilcox will use CAESAR II and FEATools to demonstrate how to improve some of these model accuracy issues.

Speaker bio:

Jim Wilcox, P.Eng.

Jim serves as president of CodeCAD in Calgary, Canada. He is a mechanical engineer and has instructed CAESAR II pipe stress seminars since 1990 in South America, Asia, US, and Canada.

Many engineers use CAESAR II as-is, right out of the box. But there are many minor adjustments that each user can make to the program environment to speed and simplify the input session, provide more content, and organize input and results.

If you spend even a few hours developing piping models or evaluating results, these simple changes are well worth a review in light of the benefits they offer in terms of time savings and comprehension.

Speaker bio:

David Diehl graduated with a BSME from Lehigh University USA in 1976. Upon graduation he took a post as a technical support representative for Auton Computing in New York City. After four years David relocated to Houston, Texas providing technical support for Auton’s Dynaflex – a mainframe-based piping system analysis program. In 1986, he took a position at Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis Solutions (COADE, Inc.) introducing and selling CAESAR II – the world’s first PC-based pipe stress analysis package. While at ICAS Dave earned his Professional Engineering license and served as the product manager for CAESAR II. He currently manages ICAS training and is the lead instructor for CAESAR II and the principal author of the CAESAR II on-line training course (available at www.pipingdesignonline.com). Dave joined the B31.3 Process Piping Committee in 1999. He now serves as the Vice-Chair of that committee and a prior Chair of the B31.3 Subgroup on Design. He also served 16 years on the Board of Directors for SPED – the Society of Piping Engineers and Designers.

January 02, 2016

CAESAR II 2016 (8.00) introduces a new Load Case Editor. The redesign of the static Load Case Editor supports the 2014 edition of the B31.3 code. This code edition states the maximum of all SL stress values must be used to determine the Expansion Allowable stress, and all support conditions must be considered in determining the SL stress values. The impact of these requirements is that there will need to be a sustained load case evaluated for every operating case. (The new Sustained case was discussed in an earlier webinar.)

This webinar will build on the previous two webinars and demonstrate the functionalities of the new Load Case Editor for increased efficiency.

Learn about the new Load Case Editor offered by CAESAR II 2016. Check out how the time-saving features will benefit your workflow.

Speaker bio:

With a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University, Mandeep Singh started his career with the Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis Solutions group in 1998. He has experience as a senior developer for both Intergraph PV Elite and Intergraph CAESAR II. Mandeep is currently the Product Manager of CAESARII and is actively involved in the engineering, development and support of the product. He works with customers to get their requirements, and channel them to the development team and presents sessions and seminars on new developments in the software. Mandeep Singh is currently a member of ASME and is working towards his certification as a Professional Engineer (PE).

Innovative Design & Analysis (IDA) – is it the industry’s new tagline for what some folks call advanced framing?

Or maybe, IDA is just a way of working smarter that will allow us to increase our efficiency while maintaining structural integrity and uniformity.

Efficiency is an important aspect of our everyday design processes and one that’s a concern for many firms. It’s a simple fact in the construction industry that using less translates into material, labor, and erection savings. IDA is not a new process, but rather an idea for performing the same process in a smarter way.

Changing the way you do business is never a task to be undertaken lightly, especially when current processes and procedures “appear” to work well or “just” get the project done. Adopting an IDA approach will help your firm reduce project time/schedule to complete, increase your accuracy, and promote visibility. This will create cost savings that will ultimately lead to a competitive advantage gain.

Please join Mitch Sklar and Michael Smith as we look at the year in review and see what is next for Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis Solutions in 2016, including CADWorx, CAESAR II, PV Elite, TANK, Visual Vessel Design, and GT STRUDL.

November 10, 2015

With the publication of B31.3 2014, the code now requires that the sustained stresses be evaluated in all conditions of the piping system, so that the maximum sustained stress at each node can be used in the determination of the allowable stress for the expansion load case(s).

This webinar, “The CAESAR II Alternate Sustained Case,” will investigate how varying conditions (operating cases) of the piping system can lead to different sustained stresses. Discussion will follow on how non-linear boundary condition behavior causes these different sustained states, and how CAESAR II can automate the evaluation of all such states without requiring the user to manually adjust the piping model.

About the speaker

Richard Ay is a registered professional engineer who serves as the CTO for analysis products and oversees the development of plant engineering products. In 1985, at the request of Tony Paulin, one of the founders of COADE, Richard joined the company, which later became part of Intergraph. He has worked on the development of CAESAR II, TANK, product licensing, QA, technical support procedures, and technical presentations. Richard has previous experience at a major EPC firm and an offshore consulting firm. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Ocean Engineering and a master’s degree in Civil Engineering. Richard is a member of ASCE and ASME.

October 23, 2015

With the publication of B31.3 2014, the code now requires that the sustained stresses be evaluated in all conditions of the piping system, so that the maximum sustained stress at each node can be used in the determination of the allowable stress for the expansion load case(s).

This webinar, “The CAESAR II Alternate Sustained Case,” will investigate how varying conditions (operating cases) of the piping system can lead to different sustained stresses. Discussion will follow on how non-linear boundary condition behavior causes these different sustained states, and how CAESAR II can automate the evaluation of all such states without requiring the user to manually adjust the piping model.

About the speaker

Richard Ay is a registered professional engineer who serves as the CTO for analysis products and oversees the development of plant engineering products. In 1985, at the request of Tony Paulin, one of the founders of COADE, Richard joined the company, which later became part of Intergraph. He has worked on the development of CAESAR II, TANK, product licensing, QA, technical support procedures, and technical presentations. Richard has previous experience at a major EPC firm and an offshore consulting firm. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Ocean Engineering and a master’s degree in Civil Engineering. Richard is a member of ASCE and ASME.

"If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done."- Attributed to Thomas Jefferson

Since its introduction in 1984, CAESAR II® has become the world’s most widely used pipe flexibility and stress analysis software. It is considered the industry de facto standard. With the release of CAESAR II 2016, the product’s Industry leadership of 30 years forges forward with a revitalized direction and significant new capabilities in response to market demands and direct feedback.

Hear Mitch Sklar from Intergraph discuss some highlights of this research and development effort, including:

Updates and support are offered for the latest piping codes B31.1, B31.4, B31.5, B31.8, and B31.9 in addition to Fixed Equipment Engineering codes API-560, API-610, API-617, and API-661.

Improved analytics are enabled with the augmentation of Paulin Research Group FEATools™ and NozzlePRO™.

Projects related to the nuclear industry will benefit from the product’s realigned industry focus.

Don’t miss this opportunity to take a first look at the new CAESAR II 2016 and how the benefits of its revitalized direction can improve your workflows.

About the Speaker

Mitch Sklar is a registered professional engineer with extensive project background and situational knowledge of design, analysis, and construction. He has more than 25 years of evaluative expertise (structural, pipe stress, and finite element analysis), as well as project management and construction management experience in the design and analysis of commercial and industrial vertical structures, along with stress analysis and design of high temperature/high pressure piping systems. Mitch is the resident GT STRUDL, CAESAR II, PV Elite, and TANK analysis solutions expert with managing responsibility of analysis and design support for the sales team. He develops the business strategy of Intergraph structural/CAE applications to support a global product utilization. Mitch holds a bachelor’s degree in Structural Design and Construction Engineering Technology and a master’s degree in Structural Engineering and Business Administration.

How can you better check out your CAESAR II model? Learn how during this webinar.

Judy Hodgson, P.E., will walk through how she approaches models that are sent to her from clients asking for technical support.

The same techniques can be used by piping engineers to:

Double-check models before running them.

Troubleshoot models with questionable results.

An actual model will be assessed live during the webinar.

About the presenter

Judy Hodgson, P.E., serves as a CAESAR II Applications Engineer at Plant Design Solutions, providing in-depth technical support and training for customers. She has nearly 25 years of industry experience. Judy has worked as a consulting engineer at DuPont and as a principal engineer at Westinghouse Electric. She holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.

Assuring sufficient flexibility is the basis for most pipe stress analysis. Piping systems are rather unique structures – they must be stiff enough to contain high pressure and prevent collapse, but they must also be flexible enough to avoid trouble with fatigue failure and equipment overload.

One way to meet the demands of thermal strain on the system is the addition of an expansion loop. CAESAR II offers a unique feature that helps the engineer to size the expansion loop to meet selected criteria – expansion stress range or equipment load.

This webinar will familiarize you with the Optimization Wizard found in the CAESAR II Input Processor. See how you can gain flexibility for your piping systems.

Speaker bio:

With a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University, Mandeep Singh started his career with the Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis Solutions group in 1998. He has experience as a senior developer for both Intergraph PV Elite and Intergraph CAESAR II. Mandeep is currently the Product Manager of CAESARII and is actively involved in the engineering, development and support of the product. He works with customers to get their requirements, and channel them to the development team and presents sessions and seminars on new developments in the software. Mandeep Singh is currently a member of ASME and is working towards his certification as a Professional Engineer (PE).

June 02, 2015

Join George Montgomery and Bill Shipley from ECE as they demonstrate a practical application of the FEATools software solution from Intergraph. Through the course of the webinar, several unique pipe stress scenarios will be discussed, and solutions will be exercised just as the engineer would with FEATools as a part of their problem solving workflow.

Learn how to quickly, effectively, and efficiently bring Finite Element Analysis to bear on piping and pressure vessel design/analysis problems by generating automatically improved CAESAR II models. Topics will include the C2 07-02 Translator, as well as a brief discussion on FE107, FESIF, FEBend, and FETee. Convince yourself of the impact this technology can have on your pipe stress analysis results.

Speaker bio:

Bill Shipley has been with ECE Design for over three years working as a Technical Sales Application Specialist. His background includes 15 years of piping experience in 3D Plant Design using AutoCAD & CADWorx.

Graduating from the Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Technology (MMET) program at Texas A&M University in Spring of 2011, George Montgomery has worked as a Manufacturing Engineer for the oil and gas industry, and later as a CADWorx piping designer. George is currently an Application Engineer at ECE Design delivering technical guidance to ICAS customers, and providing analysis solutions to present-day problems.

PipingDesignOnline.com offers high-quality CAESAR II training solutions through affordable monthly subscriptions. Learn from one of the world's leading instructors at a fraction of the cost of conventional classroom training.

Last year, Tony Horn from PipingDesignOnline.com introduced the release of an online video course on the fundamentals of CAESAR II – a great introduction to the Intergraph pipe stress software. Since then, David Diehl, director of Training at Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis Solutions, has been creating new material which Tony has now produced and released as the CAESAR II Statics One online video training course.

The webinar features:

Material covered by the new CAESAR II Statics One course.

New flexible pricing options.

Quick look at future additions.

For more information about online video libraries and training courses, read the flyer.

Speakers' biographies:

Anthony Horn is the owner and creator of PipingDesignOnline.com, the largest CADWorx and CAESAR II software training organization in the world. PipingDesignOnline.com, launched in 2011, contains over 450 specialized CAD and Pipe Stress Analysis training videos, and has served over 2000 subscribers in more than 40 countries.

David Diehl has been in or around pipe stress analysis for almost 40 years. Since 1999, Dave has participated in the B31.3 Section Committee and is a former chairman of the B31.3 Design Task Group. He has filled many roles during his time with COADE and now Intergraph, including serving as the product manager for CAESAR II. Dave currently manages training for ICAS and is the lead instructor for CAESAR II.

This means that you no longer have to download each webinar to watch them. Now, not only will you be able to stream these webinars to your Windows PC, but also to Mac OS, iOS and Android devices. Over the coming months, in addition to our future webinars, we will be enabling streaming for past webinars.

Do your 3D designers and stress analysis engineers work efficiently together, or does each discipline reinterpret and remodel the work of the other? Sound familiar? Today, many companies still perform a manual paper-based handover between 3D design and stress analysis disciplines, impacting on productivity, increasing risk of error, and driving up cost.

What if there was a way to do this more efficiently, accurately and faster?

Sign up for our Integration webinar and learn how you can benefit!Register now and discover how bi-directional data-exchange between CADWorx® Plant Professional (AutoCAD-based 3D plant design) and both CAESAR II® (pipe stress analysis) and PV Elite® (vessel and heat exchanger analysis) can enable you to:• Enhance productivity – eliminate re-modelling to save time, cost, and avoid error• Increase accuracy – analyze exactly what was designed, not a reinterpretation• Make better decisions – avoid assumptions and reduce iterations by visualizing the design model in the context inside the analysis environment.

Mandeep Singh, CAESAR II product owner, has years of experience speaking with users at various training seminars and conference presentations. During many of these conversations, he discovered that many users are unaware of the numerous time-saving and helpful features built within CAESAR II.

In this webinar, Mandeep will focus on revealing the benefits of the model generation feature and show you how to skyrocket your productivity and generate the most efficient designs.

Speaker bio:

With a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University, Mandeep Singh started his career with the Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis Solutions group in 1998. He has experience as a senior developer for both Intergraph PV Elite and Intergraph CAESAR II. Mandeep is currently the Product Manager of CAESARII and is actively involved in the engineering, development and support of the product. He works with customers to get their requirements, and channel them to the development team and presents sessions and seminars on new developments in the software. Mandeep Singh is currently a member of ASME and is working towards his certification as a Professional Engineer (PE).

November 06, 2014

CAESAR II can model many nonlinear restraint conditions that you may find in the field – liftoff supports, gaps and restraints, friction. But some situations, the interaction of these nonlinear conditions and the applied loads cannot be resolved using the F=KX approach used by most pipe stress packages today. What do you do then?

This webinar will discuss the issue and present an approach to resolve the problem.

Speaker bio:

David Diehl graduated with a BSME from Lehigh University USA in 1976. Upon graduation he took a post as a technical support representative for Auton Computing in New York City. After four years David relocated to Houston, Texas providing technical support for Auton’s Dynaflex – a mainframe-based piping system analysis program. In 1986, he took a position at Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis Solutions (COADE, Inc.) introducing and selling CAESAR II, the world’s first PC-based pipe stress analysis package. While at ICAS Dave earned his Professional Engineering license and served as the product manager for CAESAR II. He currently is the lead instructor for CAESAR II and manages all training for ICAS. For the last ten years Dave has participated in the B31.3 Section Committee and is a former chairman of the Design Task Group there. He also serves as a Director of SPED – the Society of Piping Engineers and Designers.